This is a list of gliders/sailplanes of the world, (this reference lists all gliders with references, where available)[1] Note: Any aircraft can glide for a short time, but gliders are designed to glide for longer.

(Zbigniew Babiński)

(British Aircraft Company)

(Eric Bachem / Bachem-Werke)

(Al Backstrom)

(Segelflugzeugwerke Baden-Baden)

(BAGALINI, Marino)

(Bob Bailey / Moyes Microlights Pty Ltd)

(Miroslav Baitler / I. skupina konstruktérů Aero, Praha (Prague))

(Frank Gröss / Baker McMillen)

(James Noel Ball)

(John J. Bange)

(John J. Bange - Clifton, Queensland, Australia)

(Bango & Schmid)

(BARBAT, Edward & DUNN, Colin & RIGBY, Colin)

(Ion Bărboi)

(René Bardin)

(Graal Aéro / Max Barel)

(Ralph Barnaby)

(A. Baron)

(Jock Barratt & Harold Bradley / Waikerie Gliding Club)

(Cláudio Pinto de Barros / Centro de Estudos Aeronáuticos (CEA) / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Bello Horizonte, Brazil)

(Walenty Barszczowski)

(Karl Barta)

(Ryszard Bartel)

(Carl Stephen BATES, Clear Lake, Iowa (USA) / Popular Mechanics)

(Pierre Baudoux & José Orta / Ateliers Orta, Saint-Hubert, Belgium)

Ted Bauer

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(Ted Bauer / San Gabriel Academy students, Californie, USA)

(Bäumer Aero GmbH, Hamburg / Paul Bäumer)

(Albert Bazin)

(Ermanno Bazzocchi)

(Lyon, Douglas – Beaufort Gliding Club, Victoria, Australia)

(Jim Bede)

(Edvins Bekmanis)

(Romualdas Bėkšta)

(DENHAUT, François - BELLANGER Frères)

(Viktor Nikolayevich Belyayev)

(Pavel Beneš)

(George Bennett & Richard Carter)

(Ing. Hans Benz, Mönchen-Gladbach.)

(Jorge Berca)

(M. Berger in Lyon and flown by Gardey)

(Berkshire Manufacturing Corporation)

(Bertin (glider constructor))

(Alain Besneux)

(Paul Bikle)

  • Bilski Mewa (Gull) No.14 – Second Polish Glider Contest 17 May – 15 June 1925

(Karel Bína / B. Metyš & J. Litomyšl Matoušek)

(Birdman Enterprises)

(Benny Birrlauf)

(Michal Blaicher)

(Lilian E. Bland – Ireland)

(Alojzy Błażyński)

(Louis Blériot)

(Gerhard Blessing / Sportverein Merseburg)

(Bley Flugzeugbau GmbH, Naumberg)

(John W. Bock)

(Michal Bohatyrew)

(HALLER, Oldřich)

(Pierre Bonnet - Louis Clément - Henri Mignet)

(Émile Bonnet-Labranche / Ateliers vosgiens Saint Dié)

(Aeronautica Bonomi)

(BORCHN, A. A. & ANEMON, O. K.)

(Jozef Borzecki)

(Jacques Boulay & Hubert Ferrier)

(Jacques Boulay & Menin)

(Michael Bowlus)

(William Hawley Bowlus)

(Bernhard Bräutigam / Flugzeugbau Braütigam G.m.b.H. Weimar)

(Heinz Brditschka)

(Société anonyme des ateliers d'aviation Louis Breguet)

(Karl Bremer)

(William G. Briegleb)

(Georges Briffaud)

(Bristol Aeronautical Corporation)

(Bristol Aeroplane Company)

(Brno Technical university)

(Broburn Sailplanes Ltd, Woodley)

(Avions Maurice Brochet / Constructions Aéronautiques Maurice Brochet)

(Stefan Brochocki, Witold Kasper and A. Bodek)

(Christian Brondel)

(Wilfred Brookes)

(Vincent Brown & STC-GC (Sydney Technical College Gliding Club))

(Leeroy Brown/ Southdown SkySailing Club)

(Giovanni Bruni / Aéroclub Vergiate)

See Schreder.

(Brylinski, Jacques & Wehrle, Jean)

(Berliner Segelflugvereins - HOHMUTH, Otto)

(John Buchanan)

Bucher Leichtbau

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(Heinrich Bucher) see Farner

(Friedrich Wilhelm Budig)

(Bunzli, Henri René / Société de Construction d'Appareils Aériens, Levallois)

(G. Mungo Buxton)

(Jay Buxton)

Notes

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  1. ^ "j2mcl-planeurs". Team J2mcL. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. ^ a b Cynk, Jerzy B. (1971). Polish Aircraft 1893–1939. London: Putnam. ISBN 978-0-370-00085-5.
  3. ^ "Bachem Lerche". J2mcl planeurs (in French). 10 September 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  4. ^ a b Gugju, Ion; Gheorghe Iacobescu; Ovidiu Ionescu. Romanian Aeronautical Constructions 1905 - 1974. Brașov.
  5. ^ a b c d Opdycke, Leonard E. (1999). French Aeroplanes before the Great War. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7643-0752-5.
  6. ^ Parmentier, Bruno (17 January 2013). "Bellanger-Denhaut, Planeur expérimental par Aviafrance". Aviafrance (in French). Paris. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Bellanger-Denhaut BD-1". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net (in French). 6 September 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  8. ^ "The Rise and Demise of a Weapon (1)". Air Enthusiast (1972–03).
  9. ^ Schneider, Helmut (1936). Flugzeug-Typenbuch 1936 (in German) (1936 ed.). Leipzig: Herm. Beyer Verlag. p. 17.
  10. ^ a b Taylor, John W. R.. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1982–83. Jane's Publishing Company. London. 1983. ISBN 0-7106-0748-2
  11. ^ a b Gaillard, Pierre (1990). Les Avions Francaisde 1944 a 1964. Paris: Editions EPA. p. 86. ISBN 2-85120-350-9.
  12. ^ "Briffaud GB-80 Aérovoilier". www.j2mcl-planeurs.net (in French). 2 September 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2020.

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